'alt+t' can't be set as keybinding for open-tab in gnome-terminal (worked in hardy)

[Carey Underwood]

Binary package hint: gnome-terminal

In hardy, I kept a alt+n and alt+t as 'new window' and 'new tab', as they're far easier to type than the default ctrl+shift+<letter>. The 'disable menu accelerators' option was disabled, and all was well in the world.

In intrepid, you can still set the alt+t as a binding, but hitting it always inserts ^t into the terminal, rather than triggering the bind.

[Mackenzie Morgan (maco.m)]

I'm trying this, and I can't set it to Alt+T. I'm guessing it's because the Terminal menu is already mapped to Alt+T. How did you get around this?

[Carey Underwood (cwillu)]

Edit menu | Keyboard Shortcuts | uncheck: "Enable menu access keys
(such as alt+f to open the File menu)"

In hardy, that's sufficient to get it to work, but it's broken on intrepid.

On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 2:47 AM, Mackenzie Morgan <email address hidden> wrote:
> I'm trying this, and I can't set it to Alt+T. I'm guessing it's because
> the Terminal menu is already mapped to Alt+T. How did you get around
> this?
>
> ** Changed in: gnome-terminal (Ubuntu)
> Status: New => Incomplete
>
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> 'alt+t' can't be set as keybinding for open-tab in gnome-terminal (worked in hardy)
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/284824
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> of the bug.
>

[Mackenzie Morgan (maco.m)]

Even after changing that setting, I can't set Alt+T as the accelerator at all to be able to reproduce the ^T thing.

[Carey Underwood (cwillu)]

Under hardy, either via the gnome option 'Preferences | Appearances | Interface | Editable menu shortcut keys' + highlighting the 'new tab' option and hitting Alt+T, or 'Edit | Keyboard shortcuts'. It will then break after upgrading to intrepid.

Under intrepid, only the 'Keyboard shortcuts' dialog will work.

Note also, there's an (unrelated?) bug that interferes if you have multiple terminal profiles. If you do, testing under a fresh account with any additional terminal profiles is probably the best thing to do.

[Mackenzie Morgan (maco.m)]

Ah, so it works like this then:

If set in Hardy then upgraded:
Action not performed
^t inserted in terminal

If set in Intrepid:
Cannot set shortcut to alt+t at all

Is that correct?

[Carey Underwood (cwillu)]

You can set it from intrepid, you just can't set it directly without
going the the terminal 'keyboard shortcuts' menu.

On Sat, Oct 18, 2008 at 11:48 AM, Mackenzie Morgan <email address hidden> wrote:
> Ah, so it works like this then:
>
> If set in Hardy then upgraded:
> Action not performed
> ^t inserted in terminal
>
> If set in Intrepid:
> Cannot set shortcut to alt+t at all
>
>
> Is that correct?
>
> --
> 'alt+t' can't be set as keybinding for open-tab in gnome-terminal (worked in hardy)
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/284824
> You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber
> of the bug.
>

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

confirmed it works fine in hardy and in gnome 2.22 but it doesn't in intrepid and gnome trunk, will look upstream thanks for reporting.

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

Thanks for your bug report. This bug has been reported to the developers of the software. You can track it and make comments here: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=557084

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

already fixed for intrepid, thanks for reporting.

[Carey Underwood (cwillu)]

Broken again in karmic. The existing keybinding works, but if you remove it, you can't re-add it.